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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-20

There are now l63 G. A. R. posts in
Minnesota, with AL aggregate member
ship of about 100. Six years ago
there were but six posts in the State,
with 27s members. Applications for q
post charter must be signed by not less
than ten persons, each of whom must
be an honorably discharged soldier or
sailor who served between April II, 49,
81 and April 9. 1865, and who has new
er been rejected by or dropped from the
rolls of any post. No post can be
named after living person.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-20

x
The Official Gazette Of the German
reichstag publishes an edict which re-
quires that after the close of the
present year the use Of the French Ian
guage in judicial pleadings shall be
suppressed. The edict also provides
that the use Of French in judicial docu-
ments shall be suppressed at the close
Of the year 1883. This edict applies to
Metz, and other tribunals Of commerce.
4 Husbands Greatest Bsessts0
is . strong, healthy, vigorous wife with
2 clear, handsome complexion. These
can 81 be aquired 81 using Dr.. Harter's
Iron Tonic. IS
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-20
LOWING BARGAINS:

..LACES.
- 800 yds. Oriental Laces 10 cts. worth
800 yds. two toned laces 10 and Is
cts, worth 20 to Is cts.
500 yds. fancy laces 5, s and 10 cts.
worth 10, Is and 20 cts.
1000 yds. narrow trimming laces /
ct. per I'D. never before offered so low.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-20

Ladies gauze vests, just received
doz.; all sizes we sell rs cts. each wor
40 cts.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-20

meeting Of the college presidents
and professors attending the education.
III convention 1T Chicago was held June
IL for the purpose Of taking steps to SCI
cure from railroad lines special rates
and other accommodations. A genera
opinion was expressed that instructors
in colleges as well as students were as
much entitled TO special rates as minis.
tiers of the gospel, and u committee was
appointed to draw up a circular and
submit it to the general officers of the
runk lines.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-20
HOSE.

Regular imported goods rs cts. pair
worth 90 cts. 500 doz. just received.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-20

Lace buntings in pink, navy, lip
blue and cream we offer at 12a cts. .
yard, sold everywhere at 20 to Is cts.
yard.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-20

JERSEYS! JERSEYS!
We have the lowest prices and la
est assortment of any house in Ne.
Ulm. Jerseys trimmed with bea1
$500 word $500. also plain fine gool
at $3.50, worth $3.50, all sizes.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-20

Ladies lace ties Is, 20 and Is G
each, all worth double the amount.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05
Innocent Men In Prison.

IT would astonish you," said an Al
bany detective the other evening to
trio OF newspaper men who were dis
cussing matters criminal ''if YOU knew
how many men are doing time and still
are innocent | know Of at least one
such case There is now confined in
DaunemOra Prison man sentenced from
this city for seven years and six months,
he having been convicted Of theft of
which he was rs innocent as you or ].
| know this, because after his conviction
a man came to me. and said he was ready
to confess the commission of the crime of
which the other was convicted | had
no witness to this statement, and by the
time l had matters arranged to take the
confession in due form, the wOuld-be
confessor informed me that, while he
thought graf deal of the man who was
about to be imprisoned. he thought more
of himself therefore, he had changed his
mind, and decided he wouldn't confess
after all What could ! do2 If | had
made public the statement that this man
offered to confess he would have denied
it, and that would have ended the matter
Consequently the innocent man went
TO prison. He has still about half his
time to serve. '-tUaHnV Express
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05
Doing His Duty.

Every one has heard of the tithing-
man, whose business it was to keep
order in the Westinghouse, but few of
our readers ever saw him. Nowadays
no one is supposed to need watching in
such a place, partly because the children
toogenerally stay at home, perhaps, and
partly because many things are now
looked upon as quite innocent which
formerly would have been accounted
sacrilegioUs.
Here is an anecdote which illustrates
how, in the olden time, one tithing man
at least magnified his Office. General
H was the great man Of the town.
His daughters were sent to Boston to be
educated, and one of them came home
with II Boston lover, who is now mer-
chant in New York CITY. He went to
church with Eer.
But Boston manners and New Eng
land country manners and ideas We're
not the same. When the hymn was Civ
en- out, Mr.. R found it, and handed
the book TO Miss H; she bowed, and
took it. Second hymn, the same. The
old tithing man looked and frowned, but
did not quite like to offend General H.
But he thought it over and over, and his
conscience accused him of being a ''re-
specter" of persons, and that he thought
a very fearful sin.
Therefore he took his seat in the
afternoon resolved to do his duty fear
lessly, whatever might be the result to
him. The hymn WIS given out. Mr..
R found it, and handed the book to
Miss H; size bowed, and took it.
Rap, rap, rap, went the old mans
stick. Then pointing to General HIS
pew, ''YOG, you-I mean General H-'s
gal and her Boston beau. None of your
carvings on here, 1 say"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05
Heard Seventy Miles Away.
From the Lewiston (Mc. } Journal

[From the Lewiston (Mc.) Journal.l
There is a story that Mr. Eliot Glover
of Por tland, formerly of this city, re-
lated apropos OF sounds out of the still
sky. 1 was in Pennington, said he, Wis
ting my uncle. On Christmas night 1
attended the church festival with my
relatives. and it was clear starlit night,
for [ remember that at the close Of the
Christmas tree festival they sent a fine
balloon into the air and that it went
straight up and seemed to hang over us
quite stationary. Then it took course
in another direction and seemed to float
over toward Lewiston. The next day
was Sunday, and after breakfast walked
out with my uncle. It was very still
day, without Il breeze, apparently, from
any quarter. Smoke rolled up straight
into the sky. We were walking silently
along when my uncle stopped and said:
''What do you hearl" [ listened. SIT
sounds like the roar Of the sea" [ said.
1t did sound like 1.-THE low monotone
of the surf on the shore, the ceaseless
roar of an ocean in storm. ''But, L
added, ''of course it is not the sea. 1t
must be the wind" The wind 2"
asked my uncle; ''where do you see it?
Look at those trees. They are motion
less. Look at the smoke. Look at that
grove OF pines over there. They would
sing if amy trees were singing, and they
are quiet" Sure enough it wasn't the
wind, and if not the wind what was it!
It must be the ocean. We listened to it
for five minutes. 1t doomed and roared
sullenly. [ was convinced that it was
the sea. In the afternoon I met a well
known Pennington gentleman out walk
ing, and asked him if he heard any
sound odd or strange He said that he
heard the wind in the trees. I asked
him ii he could see any trees in motion
and he said no. 1 told him 1 thought
it was the sea. He poohed ut first, but
I heard him telling friend
that he had heard the sea roaring. That
night We looked at the map and found
that the nearest points at which the sea
came were Boothbay and Harpswell, and
they are from seventy to eighty miles as
the birds tiy. The next day the news
papers brought reports of a fearful storm
along the coast, with high seas and dam
aging surf along the shore. [ have not
hesitated to believe that We heard the
surf at Boothbay that Sunday in Farm
ington. What current of upper all
brought it that seventy miles The day
was as calm as the calm of the ocean at
rest
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05
DESPERATE COURAGE.
a Story of the Sepoy Rebellion in
India.

On the outbreak OF the Sepoy mutiny
against the English, in 1857, shocking
cruelties were perpetrated. The Eng
ish residents of towns within the limits
of the instruction were massacred:
indeed, all India was in a fever of excite
ment.
Colonel Leevin, in his Fly on the
Wheel, says that the magistrate i'll charge
Of the town of Banda, narrowly escaped
with his life, at the beginning of the ex-
element. When the storm burst he was
the only European left in Banda, the
other residents having already sought
refuge in Futtehpoor.
The Nawab of Banda, although at
heart in sympathy with the mutineers,
yet preserved to the last an appearance
of loyalty. The magistrate had been
informed that rising was imminent, and
went to the Nawab TO exhort him to use
all possible influence to quiet the peo-
pie.
Even as they sat talking, there reach
ed them q murmur from the town with
out, swelling into a shout as the tumult
came nearer. A dead silence fell in the
room, and on looking up the magistrate
saw that the Nawab was smiling
He knew then that his only hope lay
in prompt action; so, drawing his revol-
yer he seized the NGwab by the collar
and placed the muzZlc against his fore
head.
''Is a carriage likely to be soon ready
for me to depart Z" he asked, quietly.
Eyes, yes, Sahib: one is now ready"
vociferated the atfiighted attendants.
''Then we will so at once"
Without relaxing his grasp of the Ma
wab's collar, they emerged from the
palace. and the immense mob outside
hushed their clamor, in terror for the
life of their Nawab, and in amazement |
at the daring of this solitary English
man.
''Nov," said the magistrate to the |
Nawab, tell them that if l hear 4 boot |
or an insult, or if any mans hand is
raised against me. that moment viii be
your last"
The Nawab entered the carriage with |
him, and they drove of, no one daring |
to interfere. At twelve miles distance |
from the city, the magistrate had horse |
waiting for him in case of a sudden .
50 here he LETT the Nawab, |
politely thanking him for the pleasure
Of his company, and rode off unframed
to Futtehpoor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05
On His Dignity.

There is a certain compositor who has
for years been known around the various
newspaper offices of this city as a hard
drinller. Not long ago he entered the COM
posing room of an afternoon newspaper
for the purpose Of getting a days sub
bling. As usual, he was under the in
fuenoe of the "rosy." There was a
compositor in the Office who was q great
temperance advocate, and he imme-
diately took the semi-inebriated printer
to task about his evil ways. "Do you
know what will be the end of it all,
Sam % asked the moralist. Sam looked
at his interrogation in a half-dazed man
ner, but made no reply. "Well, We'll
get up some morning and see in the
local reports an item like this: Found
dead in a cell last night, Sam Dash. "
Sam Immediately Strengthened up to his
proudest height and said with consid-
cradle emphasis and oratorical flourish
of the right hand: Samuel p. Dash, by
gosh !''-PhiladelpAia CAL.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05

United States Marshal Wilson, of the
District of Columbia, in a conversation
the other day, told the story of a goose
that cost the Government $1GO, as fol,
lows:
When Fred Douglass was Marshal it
was customary to summon large number
of witnesses to appear before the Grand
Jury, the ability of the jury to examine
all thus summoned in one day not being
considered By the Marshal This was
particularly the case where the party
charged with an offcnse happened to be 4
colored man. The per diem being 81 %,
every negro residing in the vicinity where
the Otftnse was alleged to have been com
mitted struggled to have himself sum-
mOned. On one of these occasions Mr..
Wilson was foreman Of the Grand Jury
4 negro was charged with having stolen
live goose. Over thirty witnesses We're
summoned by the Marshal, and the Grand
Jury spent two days in their eXamina-
ton. When the case was concluded the
foreman reported the facts to Judge Nc
Arthur, and expressed the opinion that
witnesses were summoned in many cases
for revenue only. The foreman was III
stucted rot to spend time in examining
such witnesses, and the Marshal was di-
rcctcd thereafter to summon no more wit
nesses than the Grand Jury could exam
inc on the day for which they were sum
moned. This resulted in correcting the
abuse during the continuance of Mr.. Viii
sons term as foreman of the jury. Il in
quired into the cost" said Mr. Wilson,
''of our inquest over that goose, and
found that the expense to the Govern
ment was $3.50. That experience has
been of service 10 me as Marshal, and has
enabled me to save to the treasury pretty
large sum in witness fees"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05
WIVES BOUGHT LIKE CATTLE.
The Way Lazy Indians Secure Bread
Winners.

There is a reservation at the mouth Of
the Klamath for the Indian tribes living
in northern California. The squaws or
Young women are yendible commodities,
and are put upon the market at price
supposed to correspond with their
charms. A girls choice is not consulted
in the matter, and if q rivalry exists she
Is knocked down to the most liberal
offer. A maiden OF comely appearance
and having a talent for plating hats,
baskets and other ornamental wicker
ware, is, of course, q more merchantable
article than her sister without accom-
plishments and without beauty. The
price paid for a girl of the desirable
kind is in the neighborhood of twelve
redheaded woodpeckers, broncho and
n breech-lOading rifle, the woodpecker
heads being valued at so apiece, and
the pony and gun a5 about $40 each,
making the price Of the girl SO. This
amount varies, OF course, according TO
the financial standing of the purchaser
and the avalice of the parents. 1t oc-
ours occasionally that as much as $3.50
is given for girl, but she would be pos
sessel Of unusual allurcments and the
purchaser a nabob. The lazy buck,
when he has purchased a nominal wife
for they do not consult the laws in re-
spect to mal1iage--at once requires the
lady to enter upon all the hard work OBJ
tainable. The women pack wood from
the forests i'll baskets, which are carried
on the back and supported by band
which encircles the forehead. They also
collect gold dust from the exposed bed
rock in abandoned mines, which is hand
ed over with religious regularity. 1t is
q fact that the Indian women on the
Klamath are absolute slaves, but they
are faithful and loving, no matter how
harshly treated.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05
MI. BoWser and the Hired Girl.

When we began housekeeping and got
our first hired girl, Mr.. BOwser called
me into the library, shut the door, and
dropped his voice down to the confden-
tial pitch and said :
Mrs. Bowser, let's start out right.
Let's respect the feelings of that poor
girl in the kitchen"
Certainly"
"She's Just as good as we are, aud we
mustn't put ON any airs over hersEShe
has any time from her work you might
learn her how to sing and play the
piano"
81 can't quite agree with you, Mr..
Bowser."
"Oh, you can't! Woman's mortal
enemy is woman. Well, Tn going out
and have a little talk with Eliza and tell
her what Tn willing TO do"
1 listened at the kitchen door. Mr.
/ BOwser is no man to beat about the
bush. He went right at the business in
hand by saying:
q Eliza, mobility does not consist in
riches"
She slid away from him toward the
sink.
"You are not to blame for being in
your present position. How would you
like to take singing lessons =
She looked at him with an open
mouth.
"And learn to play the piano =
She opened her mouth still wider.
"And, perhaps, learn to stitch and
paint
She seized pan of water in the sink
and VIII rled ON him with:
You internal cross-eyed old repro
bate to talk to an innocent girl in that
fashion Get out of my kitchen OF I'll
drown You in q minute -
When We sat down to supper I Won
dered why Eliza hadn't put on a plate
for herself, and I asked Mr.. Bowser
when ] should begin her piano lessons.
Mrs. Bowser, have you lost the
little sense you possessed two or three
months agol" he hotly exclaimed
Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05
Quite a Disturbance.

A newspaper printed at Dolores, Ar
gentine Republic, which is situated near
the volcanic region, gives an account of
mysterious shower of stones which fell
near that city Il few weeks ago. The
stones are said to have fallen as thick as
hail, and varied in sized from a pebble
to a respectable sized boulder. meal
culable damage was done to the crops,
tall trees were shivered to atoms, barns
and out-houses were demolished, and
many domestic animals were killed. In
some localities the ground was covered
with the bodies of wild geese and hawks
which appeared to have been killed dur
ing their flight i'll the air. Several per-
son were struck and badly injured while
Mt work in the fields, and in the city it
self, which missed the violence of the
shower, one dwelling was wrecked. The
stones are said to have fallen continu-
ousl y for more than minute.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05
The Spring Fashions.

The popular combination dresses,
Harper's Bazar tells us, promise to be
those of cashmere draped over silk
skirts, as they are imported in great va
riety; these are to be commended, be-
cause they can be worn nearly all the
year in this climate, are suitable alike
for the house and street, and need not
cost a great deal, as they require no ex-
ira trimming. There are, however,
some very handsome passementeries and
fringes used ON the more elaborate
French cashmere dresses, and Worth
adds panels of tapestry colored wool
stuffs in their silk skirts, and uses heavy
striped MORE antique for their lower
skirts. Ashes-Of-roses, q soft pinkish
drab shade, is used by Worth for these
fine wool and MORE dresses, while his
olive cashmere over-dresseS have pale
blue Grape vest, with tapestry breadths
in the sides of the olive green silk skirt
There are also entire dresses of cash
mere in dark gray or brown shades made
up with stitched edges III tailor fashion
on the Directoire coat-basque, and braid
ed with fine black cord that has picOt
edges. Large cA0Mg of MORE ribbon
loop up the voluminous drapeIy Of the
skirt. Black cashmere basques and dra-
perry, with skirt of black and white
striped MORE, also striped vest, make
very elegant tOilettes. Dark blue, green,
or heliotrope cashmeres have a demi-
pOlOnaise back, with MORE revers up
each side, and pointed much-wrinkled
apron showing MORE skirt below it.
Jackets and scarf mantles are the
dressy wraps to use with various cos
tunes, the jackets being made of cxqui-
site camel's-hair stuffs, with revers
thrown back like those of mans coat,
covered with gold galloon or braiding,
and showing Il vest of some rich fabric,
or else of gold-braided wool. These
coats Will be worn with very rich dresses:
there are also many scarf mantles of
repped silks and beaded fabrics, with
fest0Oned ropes of beads and the long
fringes that fall in separate strands the
whole length of the garment
The newest bonnets are in cap shapes,
with longer crowns than any lately worn;
and these begin to show tendency to-
ward lowering the trimming, making
them still high, yet not in the exagger-
ated heights of the past. season. A
pretty fashion is that of putting ruches
OF pinked or notched silk around these
capotes, which are worn without strings.
Thus on brown plated straw is a red
ruche, also one Of brown eros grain,
along the edge, Loops and forked ends
OF ribbons are up the front, and two
smooth bands Of the ribbon go down
the crown. Salmon pink and gray-b blue
are the colors on similar bonnet.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05
SELECT SIFTiNGs
Casts from the face were first taken in
plaster of Paris by Andrea Verrochi,
about 4. D. 1866

Casts from the face were first taken in
plaster of Paris by Andrea Verrochi,
about A. D. 1866.
Lightning conductors were first set up
for the protection of buildings by Frank
lin shortly after 1852.
The fattest woman in America is Han
nah Battersby. She is forty-four Years
old, weighs 1913 pounds, and eats pound
of candy daily.
\ land slide in the mountains above
Chico, Cal, the other day laid bare broad
streaks of white quartz which carries, ap-
parently, a very large percentage OF gold.
About the latest is glass bottomcd
boat, used, according to correspondent
Of the Inter Ocean, to gaze down upon
the beauties of the bottom Of the sea at
Nassau.
According to ecently-published book
parsley was the only vegetable eaten in
the time of Queen Elizabeth. The ia
vorite game was pigeons, trout, chicken.
venison and rabbits.
AIargrof first produced sugar from the
white beet root in 1147. and in 1899 n.
Achard produced excellent sugar from it.
IlGuCt WAS bc'tlol'Ch tllC SAS't 'NN' ga
gar industry in France.
When Alexander the Great took pos
session of Babylon, in 331 3. c., he found
series of astronomical observations taken
by the Chaldeans for an unhroken period
of l, 903 years, which places the begin
ming of the observations as early as 1924
B. {.
The orange was first brought by Portu-
gese merchants from China and planted
in Portugal, says joaquin Miller. Ii
spread from there to Spain and Italy
where it is still known by the name ''por-
tugalon There is alsoa newer importa-
ton from China known as the ''manda-
rim"
"Howling" schools are common in the
mountainous regions of Kentucky. The
name is an appropriate one, as ii is the
custom for the pupils to study their les
sons aloud. The idea prevails that chill
dren can only study aloud. The same
custom prevails in China. There, when
ever pupil stops ''howling, " his teacher
dogs him because he has ceased to study.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05
Persiaas and Their Health.

The Persians, says a good authority,
have one never-failing subject of CONVEX
sation ; that subject is their health.
The pleasure of talking about the
weather Is denied to them for, as II
months out Of the II are fine in Persia,
the subject does not present sufficient
variety. But q Persian, to whatever
class of society he may belong, is never
tired OF talking about his ailments, redl
or supposed. In his eyes all Feringhis
(Europeans) are doctors, and the Euro
pean doctor is the very best Of all. For
many years at Shiraz there lived an old
Swede who had walked into Persia in
his youth. He knew nothing of medi-
cine on his arrival but, finding that
the natives constantly solicited his adj
vice, he bought a few medical books and
literally acquired a certain amount of
knowledge by carrying ont the good old
principle Of Fiat experimentum in
corpore Will" Happily the Hakim
Sahib also believed in the evils medica-
trix nature" As rule his drugs were
harmless. al have different colored
liquids" said he, and as long as there
is bread and water to be had am never
at loss for q pill" The pills were
Toured for the common people and
gilded for the rich. At 70 years of age
the Hakim Sahib died. He held the
position of physician to the forces of the
province, and was dcseryedly respected
by natives and Europeans.